Updating RegCleaner will make Avast (free) warn for Win32:Spyware-gen(tri)

Viruses and worms
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Updating RegClean will make Avast (free) warn for Win32:Spyware-gen(tri) Trojan-horse, in the setupfile setupxv.exe (http://download.regclean.com/setupxv.exe)

Is this a fake update and really a trojan-horse or maybe Avast is to sensitive or What ?
Can anyone tell ?

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Welcome kalixberen

RegClean is not a recommended application:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/regclean.com

If you want a good registry cleaner then get RegSeeker:
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

If you are running Win 2000 or XP then download the registry optimizer NTREGOPT:
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

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Thanks for the advice!

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RegSeeker hasn’t had an update in some time, current version is 1.55. As far as updating there is no update within the program, but the about RegSeeker gives a link to the Hoverdesk site where you can check for a later version.

Just download the latest version which is in a zip file, extract the latest version and copy it into your existing folder, replacing the current files.

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Thanks DavidR.

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You’re welcome.

You might consider making your comments or questions outside the quoted text as they can easily be missed inside the quoted text.

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Anyway, seems a false positive, doesn’t it? ???

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Quite possibly but we won’t know until/unless confirmed at virustotal, but I guess when the source is suspect we are recommending looking elsewhere.